Snuff Bottle: Vintage Opaline Glass with Red Glass Overlay of LotusThe opaline (milk glass) snuff bottle has a pleasant globular shape, high neck, sloping shoulders and slightly tapering towards the base and ending in a slightly raised oval foot defined by the red overlay glass. The bottom of the foot is flat and the top opening is encased in brass. The bottle is decorated with a red glass overlay in the theme of lotus flower open blossoms, leaves, closed buds growing out of a band of red glass representing water.

A decade after the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China

He was better known as the husband of the Dowager Empress Cixi

His twenty plus years of rule was powerful and the name Tang retains the prestige it still held

The separate tiers allowed clothing to be better organized

and fishing is an acceptable activity when one can contemplate nature while being challenged by waiting for a fish to come to the lures

a popular theme that derived from the Ming Dynasty novel JOURNEY TO THE WEST

One of the prettiest banded agates on the market is the one that is only found in in the Bobonong district

and the society was disrupted

the mica inclusions in the stone changes in the light reflections that are reminded of angel wings

in good condition

brown and gray creating a beautiful piece that is pretty to look at the good to the touch

good health